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A brief exposition on the notions of Human Suffering, Theodicy and Theocracy in the Book of Job [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
It is suggested that in the face of malevolence, such as that faced by Job, God’s omnipotence and also His benevolence can be upheld. This article thus explores the notions of human suffering, theodicy and theocracy and how they are understood in the ...
Prof. Angelo Nicolaides, Rev. Dr. Humphreys Frackson Zgambo   +1 more
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Images de la théocratie à l’époque hellénistique

Pallas, 2017
Few ancient texts deal with the theory of theocracy, except a famous extract of Josephus’ Contra Apionem (2, 165). In the Bible and in the Maccabees’ books, theocracy has mostly been expressed through literary developments.
Christian-Georges Schwentzel
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Cultural Rights and Internal Minorities: Of Pueblos and Protestants [PDF]

, 2003
This article considers the question: should rights extended to cultural communities to help them preserve themselves include the right to discipline dissident members who violate cultural norms?
Robinson, Andrew M
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Islamic Theocracy of Shia Twelvers in Iran [PDF]

Edinost in Dialog, 2022
The paper introduces the concept of Velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) as actual political system in Iran. The Farsi concept transfers the authority, political and religious, to the Shia clergy called ruling faqih (ruling jurist). It means that
Kasra Akhavan Azari , Mari Jože Osredkar   +1 more
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Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism

Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2017
Kitap Değerlendirmesi: Theocratic Democracy: The Social Construction of Religious and Secular ...
Fatih Varol
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Socio-religious implications of the bond between democracy and theocracy in Nigeria

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Democracy as an administrative system is maintained through party representation and election in which everybody is duly represented, and through a constitution which is prepared in the interest of equity, justice and egalitarianism, and through the rule
Benjamin Diara, Favour Uroko
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THE ALIENATION ALONG THE SOCIAL CONTRACT: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BASIC FEATURES OF ALIENATION AND DEALIENATION IN THE CONSTITUTIONS OF BURGIUM-DEMOCRATIC, SOCIALIST, POST-SOCIALIST AND THEOCRATIC AND CLERICAL STATES

Сравнительная политика, 2019
In the present work the phenomenon of alienation, accompanied the modern formal social contracts – constitutions, is studied. The constitution, considered a formal social contract, is a legal act of alienation of the civil society and the governmental ...
Igor V. Levakin
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Religious Devotion to Political Secularism

Religions, 2022
By investigating the formation of Twelver Shīʿī theology, this article seeks to show that, despite being political and despite its advocacy of pure theocracy, living in the shadow of a secular state is part of Shīʿī religious doctrine.
Naser Ghobadzadeh
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From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth [PDF]

, 2015
The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America.
Fruzińska, Justyna
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Croatian Franciscans at the Frontier between Christianity and Islam from the 15th to the 17th Century

Edinost in Dialog, 2020
The conquest of the Ottoman state at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century put under its rule most of the territory inhabited by Croats.
Daniel Patafta
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